Product Details

Overview

Are you looking for that perfect gift for a teacher, an AP Civics student, someone heading off to law school, a social or political activist, or maybe just someone who loves playing card games? CIVIO makes the perfect gift.

Easy to Play: Each player starts as an intern at a law firm specializing in civil rights. Using a handful of cards representing laws, Supreme Court decisions, constitutional amendments, key issues, rights and freedoms, players race to combine these cards into precedents.

TEACHER APPROVED! Carol Drace, a middle-school teacher in San Carlos noted: "No one wanted to quit playing when our time was up!"

CIVIO comes with a deck of 78 cards, each beautifully and uniquely illustrated, 4 blank case cards for customizing the game, and an instruction booklet that teaches one version of the game. The game is manufactured and assembled with social, economic, and environmental justice in mind, by a worker-owned (and union-labor) cooperative using recycled paper and soy-based ink.

Just Say Gay?

The Tennessee senate recently passed a bill that would make it unlawful to mention anything about homosexuality, gays or lesbians in grade school and middle school classrooms. To protect teachers from prosecution, we are (tongue-firmly-in-cheek) offering special versions of CIVIO for shipping to that state. Use the pull-down menu if you do want a customized version of CIVIO. We're charging an extra $10 for "Tennessee Safe" decks which will be donated to the Human Rights Campaign.

The "Tennessee Safe" version has the words "homosexuality", "gay", and "lesbian" redacted with black ink on three of the Supreme Court case cards. The "Tennessee Warning" version has a label affixed to the game box "WARNING: Unmodified use of this deck may result in arrest in the state of Tennessee"